Bitcoin Forum

Hello, I'm fascinated by how all of newbies got to where we are right now - here? What's your story re: how you found and, perhaps, fell in love with bitcoin?

My story is quite simple: I spent a lot of time volunteering in South America as the bitcoin community was beginning to form. In the communities I was working in, barter and non-fiat transactions were oftentimes a norm - and I began to understand the value of those transactions on a functional and, even, spiritual level. When I finally stuck my head out of the water, I realized that the promise of bitcoin in creating a more accessible, more equal, more trustworthy globally accessible economy was huge. Thus beganeth the love affair...

I heard about it through the media coverage of Silk Road etc, as did many others.

Through a documentary on a local newsprogram. One pub started accepting bitcoin as payment. Though I didn't really look into it until about 1 year later (unfortunatly).

I read an article earlier this year about Bitcoins and how it was worth $5 in January and then $200. I should have invested back then.

Which pub? There's one in Oxford that accepts Feathercoins.

I have a crypto-currency-obsessed friend and his entusiasm got me interested in all this jazz too. I think it's a bit too late for me to get in to Bitcoin, so I'm just wandering arround alternatives and experimenting with them. Funny thing is, he was advertising Bitcoin a couple years ago but few listened and many are sorry now :)

It's never too late to invest in bitcoin if you believe in the vision...

If you're in it for the $, then the volatility of the market will get to you...

But the vision of a currency that doesn't depend on political and economic systems and that dissolves borders... that's a vision to run with. If you invest in that, you can't lose!

just heard about in TV news ... and after some discusion in pub I went in

i saw someone selling silver coins on ebay who said they accepted bitcoin about a year or so ago, didnt think much more about it until i saw a video on youtube by jsnip4 saying to buy litecoin which i did just before they shot to $30. been hooked on the alt coin scene ever since.

I'll try this one more time.

I first heard about bitcoins a couple years ago.  At some point I checked them out, thought they were cool but didn't want to dump and money into them so I left it.  In November when the media started picking up bitcoin I check in again and found that you could mine them.  I started checking things out and got hooked.

I read about it in different forums. I was super skeptical at first and I even thought people were nuts for buying BTC for $2. I then saw it go up to $200 and my mind was blown. Since then I've been a firm believer in the potential of BTC.

googling how people buy weed online :D

I heard of it on a poker site before it was a dollar a coin, but as an idiot I did nothing till it was 1000, go figure. Now I want to earn some but can't figure out how yet, but working on it. I at least understand it and like the concept and will support the eco system it's created. Anything to give options to the evil central banks.

Love these stories!

I heard about it when the silk road crash happened, I wish I had jumped in heavily at the time!

i was walking down the road and found a bitcoin laying on the ground face up. :)

A co-worker told me about them couple years ago. Even brought in physical bitcoin mints to show off. Was pretty cool but blew it off as another whatever thing. Wish I would have listened and invested when they were around $20-$30. Only after they sky rocketed I got interested into it and now am mining scrypt coins with my GPUs on the side. Still new to it but hopefully that new hobby can make me some spare change for fun things. The idea behind the virtual coin and open boarders is pretty interesting and I hope it will further evolve.

I found bitcoins just by coming across another post online. Unfortunately it was around May 2013 when the ASIC miners were just coming out and profitability with GPUs was really low :(

Heard about it last year and was waiting to get in once it crashed, and yeah so far i'm still waiting lol

I found some down the back of the sofa with the rest of change, then when i tried to cash it in, the lady at the bank said i had to go to MT Gox with these coins instead.

Damn that's a good one! :) LOL

I heard about something to get rich and quick.

I read about it on the internet a lot of time ago, I'm sure that at that time no one was even talking about ASIC miners, only gpu mining, but I didn't have the necessary equipment and knowledge at the time.
Now, at some time distance, I'm interested in altcoins and I finally have some decent knowledge about it (I spend lots of time reading the forums)